Mister Boas believed that the environment people grow up in -- not family genes caused most cultural differences among people.

VOA: special.2010.01.17

The dietary laws are presented by the priests not as a sensible way to avoid various diseases that are caused by the lack of refrigeration in the desert.

饮食教规并不是被祭司们,并不是作为一个规避疾病的方法出现的,这些疾病是由于沙漠地区缺水造成的。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

This sense, this glamour thinking, along with price increases, caused Los Angeles to boom; so it's the boomiest U.S. City.

某种意义上,群星荟萃加上房价上涨,推动了洛杉矶房地产的繁荣,所以它成为了全美房产最繁荣的地方

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选

The investigators say they found no evidence that the university's scientists cheated to prove the existence of human-caused climate change.

VOA: special.2010.04.27

We know now that it's caused by a related virus, called vaccinia, remember the virus that causes smallpox is called variola.

我们现在知道这病由一种相关的病毒引起,这种病毒叫牛痘病毒,想想天花病毒也被叫做牛痘病毒

耶鲁公开课 - 生物医学工程探索课程节选

However it was unclear to researchers whether unemployment caused poor health, or whether poor health led to job loss.

VOA: special.2009.06.09

That caused a rebellion and they overthrew the kings, and thereafter, the word king was a dirty word in Roman history.

该事件引发了叛乱,叛军推翻了国王,从此之后,"国王"这个词在罗马历史上成了一个脏字

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

One day, the insects' love of sweets caused them to attack a ship that was bringing sugar to the camp.

VOA: special.2009.01.24

The semantics was what caused the problem, because the operator was expecting a particular kind of structure there.

引起问题的是语义，因为运算符需要的是,一种特定种类的数据结构。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

But he said it was too early to say what caused the April twentieth explosion on the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig.

VOA: special.2010.06.19

Milton, of course, is instructing the muse to explain first, before she gets around to explaining anything else, what caused Adam and Eve to fall.

弥尔顿当然是在让缪斯先说，在她说其他事情之前，是什么让亚当夏娃堕落的。

耶鲁公开课 - 弥尔顿课程节选

"Rinderpest affected Africa, Asia and Europe for millennia and caused widespread famine and decimated millions of animals, both domestic and wild."

VOA: special.2010.11.02

Once the sanctuary is purged, the offerer has settled his debt, he's repaired the damage he caused.

一旦圣所被净化，献祭者就还清了他的债，他为他所造成的伤害做了补救。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

She says this monument is a quiet place for people to come to terms with loss caused by the war.

VOA: special.2009.05.06

But these were not problems brought on by the Romans, these were local problems, and part of it was precisely because the Jews had been recognized by the Romans as having a special status in some places, and this caused some kind of local resentment.

但这些问题都不是罗马人引起的，都是当地问题，部分原因是犹太人被罗马人认可,在某些地方拥有特殊地位，引起了当地人的仇视。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

The navigator also had to add any movement of the ship to the side caused by waves or the wind.

VOA: special.2009.12.23

Anymore, then they will feel threatened by the fact that as a society we decided to ban that drug because of the deformities were caused.

不然，面对我们禁止使用镇静安眠药的决定,他们也会有威胁感,尽管禁止的原因是这种药物会导致胎儿畸形。

普林斯顿公开课 - 人性课程节选

The answer to the problem caused a little trouble for my father,I imagine, but it was perfect in my opinion.

VOA: special.2010.01.30

Well, they want to see blood, they want to see if there's a body, they want to see how much damage has been caused.

他们都想要看到血，他们想看到是否有尸体，他们想看事故的严重程度。

耶鲁公开课 - 政治哲学导论课程节选

"The trouble in the street was caused by a man who had almost been run over by a horse and carriage.

VOA: special.2009.12.26

It's also-- a lot of laughter isn't caused by incongruity so a lot of times when we laugh there's nothing incongruous in any deep sense about it.

还有…,很多笑不是因为不一致引起的,很多时候我们笑,并不是因为其中有不一致的现象。

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

He said the darkening of the Martian surface during some times of the year was caused by the growth of plants.

VOA: special.2010.07.11

Now in some--in the chronic respiratory diseases there's some infection but most of the other things are caused by lifestyle or by other factors, not the infectious diseases.

如今一些,如慢性呼吸道疾病,有一些是传染所得,但大多数,都是生活方式或其他因素导致的,而不是感染性疾病

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

Some scientists say the earthquake that caused the great tsunami of two thousand four measured nine points in intensity.

VOA: special.2009.03.17

So what caused it?

究竟是什么导致了这场战争

耶鲁公开课 - 美国内战与重建课程节选

The dog caused Mister Grogan a lot of trouble, but also provided many stories for his newspaper articles.

VOA: special.2009.02.23

So as a result, they said there were droughts in these areas throughout that period and that caused tremendous unhappiness and discontent.

最后结果就是,他们说那个时期,在那个区域发生了干旱,从而致使,民生凋敝,民怨沸腾

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

The researchers say each plant-eater that became trapped caused many meat-eaters to come to the place to feed.

VOA: special.2010.04.07

As I said, they were officially recognized by the Romans, but this caused problems for Jews sometimes.

我刚才说过，他们是被罗马官方认可的，但这有时候也会给他们带来麻烦。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

What caused--that's the-- I wanted to show you one city -I actually do a short comparison between a couple of cities -Los Angeles and Milwaukee.

原因是什么,我给你们看看一座城市,我在两座城市之间做了个简单比较,洛杉矶和密尔沃基

耶鲁公开课 - 金融市场课程节选